Lasse Münstermann
Lasse Münstermann (born 6 April 1979) is a German retired snooker player and pundit.[2] He began playing at the age of 11, and in 1994 he played in his first World Amateur Championship in Johannesburg, South Africa. For a year he trained in England at the Rushden Snooker Academy, where prominent snooker players like Peter Ebdon, James Wattana and Ding Junhui studied.
Born | Göttingen, Lower Saxony | 6 April 1979
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Sport country | |
Professional | 2000/2001 |
Career winnings | £4,324[1] |
Highest break | 134 (2005 PIOS – Event 2) |
Century breaks | 1[1] |
Best ranking finish | Wildcard (2011 German Masters) |
Career
Münstermann is the winner of several German Championships (Team: 1995 and 2005; double: 1994 and 1997; Single: 2003, 2004 and 2006; U21: 2000).[3] His success in the European tour gave him a place on the main tour and 2001 World Snooker Championship in the 2000–01 season, but it was short-lived. At the 2005 World Games he reached the quarter-finals. For Germany, he was part of a team with Sascha Lippe and Itaro Santos which won the European Team Snooker Championship in Ghent, Belgium, in early 2007. He qualified for the Players Tour Championship 2010/2011, which was held in Germany. He has also contributed to PAT (Playing Ability Test) Snooker along with Thomas Hein, Thomas Moser and Frank Schröder.[4]
Tournament wins
Amateur
Outcome | No. | Year | Championship | Opponent in the final | Score |
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Runner-up | 1. | 2001 | German Amateur Championship | 2–4 | |
Winner | 2. | 2003 | German Amateur Championship | 4–2 | |
Winner | 3. | 2004 | German Amateur Championship | 4–0 | |
Runner-up | 4. | 2005 | German Amateur Championship | 0–4 | |
Winner | 5. | 2006 | German Amateur Championship | 4–3 |
References
- "Lasse Munstermann". CueTracker – Snooker Database. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
- "Keine Visionen, kein Star" (in German). Faz.net. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- "German Snooker History". Global-snooker.com. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- Hein, Thomas (2 July 2013). PAT Snooker Vol.2: A Systematic Approach to Practice. Litho-Verlag eK. p. 65. ISBN 978-3-941484-25-2.
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